That's an odd attempt to skewer Palin; is she given to run-on sentences in her writing? I actually thought that this criticism applied more to President Obama.

It seems more like this person is competing in a "Write like Palin speaks" contest.

There's something really nasty and childish about this attempt; it wreaks of smug self-satisfaction. I can picture this person sitting back and admiring her handiwork over a $12 venti mochaccino with a big shit-eating grin on her face.

I wonder how high unemployment has to get for people to stop making jokes about how Palin is "teh stooopid". 15%? 20%?

I suspect that Sarah and Todd suffered no fear of intimacy possibly causing a dangerous loss of control to the other one. They had already gotten over that fear by marrying another Christian believer that valued the life and love living inside of them. As for the writing style, I liked the plain and open communication style of it. That builds my trust in her. But we have no quotes from her shrink to give her importance. Nothing but a real point guard's assessment of the real floor of life's challenges that she is facing, and being thankful for her loyal Power Forward she can always count on.

I disagree, Joubert. I think this marginalization is malignant as all hell, and it will keep her from winning the presidency in 2012.

There are different types of intelligences. I've known brilliant men who could diagnose and repair enormously complex machines, who couldn't write a complete sentence to save their lives. I'm pretty fucking sick of these college-educated idiots who couldn't change a tire acting as though the relatively useless skills acquired in a liberal arts education are the only skills to be valued.

These are people who would sneer at geniuses as mere mechanics or grease monkeys, but who have no idea just how much more these men know about physics and chemistry and tribology and...shit, whole fields of study that these educated idiots don't even know exist, than these fools will ever know.

At what point did we decide that the ability to conjugate a verb is somehow related to the skillset required to be President?

At what point did the ability to run a business, or a state government, become less important than the ability to get into Harvard at age 18?

Hey, nothing wrong with Occidental. Among the most selective colleges in the country. Right next door in Eagle Rock. You should be so lucky as to attend that college. I went to USC and they are ranked higher than my alma mater.

There's something really nasty and childish about this attempt; it wreaks of smug self-satisfaction. I can picture this person sitting back and admiring her handiwork over a $12 venti mochaccino with a big shit-eating grin on her face.

Well, here she is: http://www.timetowriteitdown.com/abouttheowner(Yes, I know that is the right person with that name and not another person with the same name.)

How can we ensure that those who need medical care receive it while also reducing health-care costs? The answers offered by Democrats in Washington all rest on one principle: that increased government involvement can solve the problem. I fundamentally disagree...

Let's talk about specifics. In his Times op-ed, the president argues that the Democrats' proposals "will finally bring skyrocketing health-care costs under control" by "cutting . . . waste and inefficiency in federal health programs like Medicare and Medicaid and in unwarranted subsidies to insurance companies . . . ."

First, ask yourself whether the government that brought us such "waste and inefficiency" and "unwarranted subsidies" in the first place can be believed when it says that this time it will get things right. The nonpartistan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) doesn't think so: Its director, Douglas Elmendorf, told the Senate Budget Committee in July that "in the legislation that has been reported we do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount."

Now look at one way Mr. Obama wants to eliminate inefficiency and waste: He's asked Congress to create an Independent Medicare Advisory Council—an unelected, largely unaccountable group of experts charged with containing Medicare costs. In an interview with the New York Times in April, the president suggested that such a group, working outside of "normal political channels," should guide decisions regarding that "huge driver of cost . . . the chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives . . . ."

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Ha Ha Ha!!!

Get it? It's funny, because only an uneducated inbred rednick hick like Palin could fail to understand how President Obama will reign in health care costs by covering an additional 30 million people.

I'm kind of disappointed that there isn't more criticism of the entries in this thread.

It seems to me that the judges were improperly partial to longer entries. In my reading, Kaylyn Munro (runner-up 9) was the clear winner. That and in honor of the troops, also captures Palinesque oratory better than anything else in the collection.

You have excellent reasons to fear for your country, chuck, but I don't see why my little gaffe should rank among them. Of course, I didn't notice that the link went to Slate; that might have induced even dull-witted me to click before typing. And I confess I wasn't aware that 'Cuda never says "haters," but now that I know I still think I overlooked better clues than that one. Shame on me for missing the parody (and failing to check the linked item), and I did find the sentence funny. But don't think any of that reflects a lack of due admiration for the woman who moves the national debate from her facebook page.

This from the same magazine that employs both Hanna Rosin and Dalhia Lithwick. I really think Slate is run by some mad conservative as a sock puppet designed to make liberals look like as big of smug, thoughtless assholes as possible. He or she has been wildly successful.

If the Palin tome is as bad as some say then I must purchase a copy for my immediate pleasure. I love books and movies that are so bad that they are good. I love this line "blue as the stripes on old glory". Ha, this is secret code between them, don't ya know.

I love it, a huge best seller and she's talking secretly to her man about how he makes her want him. Apparently she has no need to read books or articles about communing with raisins to get off.

Of course none of the entrants or judges in the "write like Palin" contest have ever actually read the book.

Oh, I wouldn't be too sure, John. I think the writer who was quoted in Ann's blogpost surely has read the book, because Palin repeatedly mentioned Todd's "ice blue eyes" in her book. It's an insider reference to parody it, which I recognise.

Erm...I see. Somebody has created a "Write like Sarah Palin" website. I think I sense a bit of jealousy over Tina Fey's success. Impersonating Sarah Palin and putting words into her mouth is so very convenient because Sarah Palin won't oblige her enemies by saying all the stupid things they want her to say.Well then, this should be like shooting fish in a barrel then. Since Palin won't say "I can see Russia from my house", we'll just trot Tina out there and it'll be as good as if Dan Rather invented it, only this time, we'll get away with it.It's all unverified, but true.

Althouse.Why are you proliferating lies? Oh, that's right, you voted for Obama.

Yeah, big f--- up on the stripes thing, but let's point out something... its not just her error. its also that of her editors, and i suppose the ghost writer she allegedly has. But of course to her critics, there is only one moron.

Sort of like to them there was only one person unqualified to be president in 08.